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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities –
The Case of Singapore

Box 6 – myResponder app

myResponder app

Another mobile ICT application that has been developed alerts trained first aid volunteers of any
cardiac arrest victims who are within four hundred (400) meters of their location. This allows these
trained individuals to administer first aid before an ambulance arrives. The purpose of the application
is to increase cardiac arrest survival rates by reducing response time for such emergencies.

Figure 8 – myResponder application screenshot

Another example of the implementation of ICTs to increase health care outcomes and efficiencies is
Singapore’s Elderly Monitoring System. The programmer employs smart sensor technology to detect
abnormalities in daily activity and changes in vital signs with the aim to reduce the need for in-patient
hospital care through increased preventive and out-patient care.
Once an abnormality is detected, the Elderly Monitoring System alerts caregivers. Elderly citizens can
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then request help for themselves from loved ones through wireless panic buttons.

Telehealth is defined in Singapore as the systematic provision of health-care services over
physically separate environments using infocomm technologies. It enables the shift from
institution-based care towards home and community care. It is also a ‘workforce multiplier’ to
help health care providers improve productivity and multiply care provisioning capacity. The
three key initiatives in Singapore’s Telehealth programme are Smart Health Video Consultation,
Smart Health TeleRehab and Smart Health Vital Signs Monitoring.

Figure 9 – Smart Health Video consultation session

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Smart Nation Singapore, 2016.

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